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Originally Posted by August
but for you, a person who has never served his country in any way
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Originally Posted by Skybird
I helped in a medical aid project during the Balkan wars, a doctors' initiative that brought heavily traumatized - I would say: almost destroyed - torture victims from the Balkans to places in Northern Germany, Holland and Denmark for therapeuitical treatmnent.
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I think Skybird did a much greater deed to society than many of the German conscripts did during their service, who just wasted their time, drinking and waiting until it's over.
Sky's line of thought about war looks coherent to me: there is no happy ending to war because war by itself is no happy event - just like their is no happy ending to an accident, which in the best case leave people unharmed, but life would be better without. (Don't mistake my last sentence for a pipe dream of a pacifist, who I am not)
The percentage of persons with soul scars from a war, is much harder to evaluate than the percentage of people with body wounds. People have a normal live, but maybe snap in certain situations, some just live with their scars without anybody noticing. From my experiences with survivors of WW2 (military and civilian), nobody got out without scars to the soul. Which does not mean that they could not life a happy live and be loving persons.